Daily Archives: April 5, 2011

Dereck Davis, chairman of the House Economic Matters Committee, said Tuesday night that he expects his committee to vote on the governor’s wind energy proposal Thursday. The committee has been considering some changes proposed by the governor to win over ...

ANNAPOLIS — In an attempt to fix the state’s most troubled agency without spending more money, lawmakers are asking the Department of Juvenile Services for reports rather than policy changes. A bill that would have mandated substantially equivalent services for ...

Siblings who claim to be the offspring of a priest’s affair with a church organist about 60 years ago cannot sue the religious society that hired him and allegedly covered up the fact he was their father, a Maryland appellate ...

The Jan. 9 melee outside a West Baltimore nightclub, in which an undercover officer was shot dead by fellow officers, has already taken an emotional toll on the city and its police department. The financial cost of the incident will ...

The state and Baltimore County have loaned Stanley Black & Decker $1.1 million to secure the company’s presence in Towson for at least the next five years and ensure the company’s 1,300 local workers have a job. The company — ...

NEW YORK— Diamond Foods Inc. took its biggest bite yet of the snack business with a $1.5 billion deal to buy the Pringles brand from Procter & Gamble Co. The deal is the biggest in a stack of acquisitions for ...

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials raised concerns last month that a big jump in energy prices could weaken the economy and unleash inflation, prompting a few to suggest the possibility of tightening credit this year. Such a move usually involves ...

LONDON — Airfares have repeatedly risen this year, the dollar has struggled against the euro, and Europe’s economic crisis is still rattling financial markets. Americans planning their summer vacations could well ask what’s the point of going to Europe this ...

HADDONFIELD, N.J. — U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is pushing the Obama administration to halt deportation proceedings against the same-sex spouses of U.S. citizens. The Democrat wrote a letter to the federal Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday to make the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Fairfax County Police did nothing wrong when they failed to get a warrant before using GPS technology to track a registered sex offender’s movements, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The unanimous decision by the full ...